The incidence of allergic disease in the general practice of pediatrics.

摘要: Summary This paper is the first publishedstudy concerned exclusively with determination of incidence allergy in a general pediatric practice. In it reported allergic children group practice Jackson, Tennessee. Sixty study dates were selected from year 1954. Five each month. All patients seen for examination and treatment on those included. Presence or absence disease was determined patient's records by evaluating family history, medical physical examination, laboratory findings, response to treatment, interval symptoms. The contained 1,225children. One hundred seventy-five (14 per cent) these allergic. forty-five (45 nonallergic. Only clear-cut, unquestioned major allergies, including chiefly eczema, asthma, hay fever, rhinitis classified as Two eighty-five (23 unknown because insufficient available data. twenty (18 probably consisted whose findings indicated disease, but whom they not sufficiently definite severe make diagnosis allergy. analyzed point view types race, place residence, seasonal factors, age. problems encountered diagnosing are discussed considerable detail. higher this than has been previously. Certain factors which may have influenced discussed.